Participants Seeking Positions
The following women seek faculty or postdoctoral positions to begin in 2024. We provide this listing for informational purposes only. The listing is not exhaustive (candidates are listed by their request), and information is provided by the candidates themselves. Click on a candidate's name to be linked to her website. If you would like to be listed as a job candidate on our site, or would like to change or remove your listing, please complete this form. If you have any questions, feel free to contact WICS.
Lotem Bassan-Nygate, (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023)
Dissertation: Who Is Watching? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism
Tara Chandra, (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, expected 2023)
Dissertation: Untangling Conflict Dynamics: Explaining Insurgent Behavior Toward Civilians
Stephanie Char, (Ph.D., Columbia University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: “Killing the Chicken to Scare the Monkey”: Effectiveness of Countercriticism Coercion by China
Kerry Chavez, (Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2022)
Dissertation: Militarized Conflict Intervention: Incentives, Constraints, and Strategic Behavior
Kaitlyn Chriswell, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2023)
Dissertation: Do criminal groups make or break citizens?: How criminal organization presence affects citizen-state interactions
Natalie C. Chwalisz, (Ph.D., American University, 2023)
Dissertation: Cooperation in Uncertainty: Migration and Human Smuggling in West Africa
María Ignacia Curiel, (Ph.D., New York University, 2023)
Dissertation: The Political Paths of Former Fighters
Elisa D'Amico, (Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago, expected 2023)
Dissertation: The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Urban Migration and Methodological Innovations
Sara Daub, (Ph.D., Hertie School, expected 2024)
Dissertation: External Diaspora Support to Rebel Organizations - Causes and Consequences
Tessa Devereaux Evans, (Ph.D., Cornell University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: To Have and to Hold: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance
Amelie Freiberg, (Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Sexual Violence in Civil War - Explaining Patterns of Combatant Socialisation
Shauna Gillooly, (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2021)
Dissertation: An Incomplete Peace: State Violence and Strategies of Resistance in Colombia
Caileigh Glenn, (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022)
Dissertation: The Financialization of Foreign Policy: Targeted Financial Sanctions and Government Retaliation
Dilan Gunes, (Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), expected 2023)
Dissertation: Transitional Justice and Prospect of Economic Development
Soha Hammam, (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, 2022)
Dissertation: A Computational Analysis of Civil Resistance Dynamics and Outcomes
Biz Herman, (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2022)
Dissertation: Individual Trauma, Collective Security: the Psychological Consequences of Conflict and Forced Migration on Social Cohesion
Rachel Ann Hulvey, (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Mobilizing for Sovereignty: How China's World Order Attracts Followers
Kathy Ingram, (Ph.D., Princeton University, 2023)
Dissertation: Multiple Sponsorship of Proxy Groups in Civil War
Latife Kınay Kılıç, (Ph.D., Bilkent University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Target States and State Support of Rebel Groups
Bo Won Kim, (Ph.D., Northwestern University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Divergent Paths to Regulating Illicit Economies: How Informality Impacts International Cooperation
Jiwon Kim, (Ph.D., Emory University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: The International and Domestic Determinants of Naming and Shaming
Willow Kreutzer, (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2023)
Dissertation: Designing Feminist Interventions
Minseon Ku, (Ph.D., Ohio State University, expected 2023)
Dissertation: Seeing is Believing: Summit Diplomacy and Public Perception of Security
Isabel Laterzo, (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, expected 2024)
Dissertation: From Campaigns to Policy: Politicians, Police, and Citizen Insecurity in Latin America
Bomi Lee, (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2021)
Dissertation: Interconnected Rivalries
Saera Lee, (Ph.D., University of Iowa, expected 2023)
Dissertation: How Shared Culture Influences Alliance Termination
Gabriella Levy, (Ph.D., Duke University, 2023)
Dissertation: Variation in Individuals' Responses to Violence Against Civilians
Sarah Moore, (Ph.D., Northwestern University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Expanding the Multi-Method Toolkit: Essays on Mixed-Methods Solutions for Comparative Politics in Diverse and Developing Contexts
Emma Murphy, (Ph.D., University College Dublin, expected 2023)
Dissertation: Agonistic transitional justice: a comparative approach
Emily Myers, (Ph.D., Duke University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Mobilization and Transformation of Social Ties During Civil War
Rhiannon Neilsen, (Ph.D., Australian National University, 2021)
Dissertation: Cyber Humanitarian Interventions: The Prospects and Ethics of Atrocity Prevention in the Digital Age
Oluwapelumi Obisesan, (Ph.D., SOAS, University of London, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Women's Experiences with Transitional Justice Processes in the Lake Chad Basin: The Boko Haram Case
Ilayda B. Onder, (Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Cooperation, Infighting, and Diffusion in Militant Group Networks
Hyunjung Park, (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace
Apekshya Prasai, (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expected May 2024)
Dissertation: Gendered Processes of Rebellion: Understanding Strategies for Organizing Violence
DeAnne Roark, (Ph.D., University of North Texas, 2023)
Dissertation: Promoting Women? Cause and Effects of Gender-Informed Transitional Justice
L. Allison Roberts, (Ph.D., University of Portsmouth, 2020)
Dissertation: Life after traumatic injury: narratives of embodiment and identity of United Kingdom ex-service personnel
Johanna Rodehau-Noack, (Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science, 2022)
Dissertation: ‘A Culture of Prevention:’ The Idea of Preventability and the Construction of War as a Governance Object
Anntiana Maral Sabeti, (Ph.D., Arizona State University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Understanding the Omission of Women and Gender in Peacebuilding post UNSCR 1325
Hattie Sellers, (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Framed by Exclusion: Gender Disparities in DDR Programs
Firuze Simay Sezgin, (Ph.D., Koç University, 2023)
Dissertation: Beyond First Glance: Exploring the Impact of Speed and Size in the Initial Deployments of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Norashiqin Toh, (Ph.D., Columbia University, expected 2023)
Dissertation: Lessons from Southeast Asia: Insurgencies, (In)action, and Transboundary Governance
Sedef Asli Topal, (Ph.D., Washington State University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation
Angie Torres-Beltran, (Ph.D., Cornell University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Gender, Violence, and the State
Cigdem Unal, (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, expected 2023)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Terrorism and Political Behavior: Country Level, Individual Level, and Party Level Analysis
Rachel Van Nostrand, (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2023)
Dissertation: Cruelty Confined: Locating Concentration Camps in Governments’ Repertoires of Repression
Pei-Yu Wei, (Ph.D., Duke University, 2023)
Dissertation: Strategic Third-Party Actors in Economic Sanctions
Winnie Xia, (Ph.D., University of Essex, 2023)
Dissertation: The Problem of Violence in Popular Mobilization
Heesun Yoo, (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2023)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Political Economy of Organized Crime
Gladys Zubiria, (Ph.D., Rice University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Giving Peace a Chance: The Role of Third Parties in Promoting a Just and Lasting Peace
Dissertation: Who Is Watching? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism
Tara Chandra, (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, expected 2023)
Dissertation: Untangling Conflict Dynamics: Explaining Insurgent Behavior Toward Civilians
Stephanie Char, (Ph.D., Columbia University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: “Killing the Chicken to Scare the Monkey”: Effectiveness of Countercriticism Coercion by China
Kerry Chavez, (Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2022)
Dissertation: Militarized Conflict Intervention: Incentives, Constraints, and Strategic Behavior
Kaitlyn Chriswell, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2023)
Dissertation: Do criminal groups make or break citizens?: How criminal organization presence affects citizen-state interactions
Natalie C. Chwalisz, (Ph.D., American University, 2023)
Dissertation: Cooperation in Uncertainty: Migration and Human Smuggling in West Africa
María Ignacia Curiel, (Ph.D., New York University, 2023)
Dissertation: The Political Paths of Former Fighters
Elisa D'Amico, (Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago, expected 2023)
Dissertation: The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Urban Migration and Methodological Innovations
Sara Daub, (Ph.D., Hertie School, expected 2024)
Dissertation: External Diaspora Support to Rebel Organizations - Causes and Consequences
Tessa Devereaux Evans, (Ph.D., Cornell University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: To Have and to Hold: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance
Amelie Freiberg, (Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Sexual Violence in Civil War - Explaining Patterns of Combatant Socialisation
Shauna Gillooly, (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2021)
Dissertation: An Incomplete Peace: State Violence and Strategies of Resistance in Colombia
Caileigh Glenn, (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022)
Dissertation: The Financialization of Foreign Policy: Targeted Financial Sanctions and Government Retaliation
Dilan Gunes, (Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), expected 2023)
Dissertation: Transitional Justice and Prospect of Economic Development
Soha Hammam, (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, 2022)
Dissertation: A Computational Analysis of Civil Resistance Dynamics and Outcomes
Biz Herman, (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2022)
Dissertation: Individual Trauma, Collective Security: the Psychological Consequences of Conflict and Forced Migration on Social Cohesion
Rachel Ann Hulvey, (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Mobilizing for Sovereignty: How China's World Order Attracts Followers
Kathy Ingram, (Ph.D., Princeton University, 2023)
Dissertation: Multiple Sponsorship of Proxy Groups in Civil War
Latife Kınay Kılıç, (Ph.D., Bilkent University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Target States and State Support of Rebel Groups
Bo Won Kim, (Ph.D., Northwestern University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Divergent Paths to Regulating Illicit Economies: How Informality Impacts International Cooperation
Jiwon Kim, (Ph.D., Emory University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: The International and Domestic Determinants of Naming and Shaming
Willow Kreutzer, (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2023)
Dissertation: Designing Feminist Interventions
Minseon Ku, (Ph.D., Ohio State University, expected 2023)
Dissertation: Seeing is Believing: Summit Diplomacy and Public Perception of Security
Isabel Laterzo, (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, expected 2024)
Dissertation: From Campaigns to Policy: Politicians, Police, and Citizen Insecurity in Latin America
Bomi Lee, (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2021)
Dissertation: Interconnected Rivalries
Saera Lee, (Ph.D., University of Iowa, expected 2023)
Dissertation: How Shared Culture Influences Alliance Termination
Gabriella Levy, (Ph.D., Duke University, 2023)
Dissertation: Variation in Individuals' Responses to Violence Against Civilians
Sarah Moore, (Ph.D., Northwestern University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Expanding the Multi-Method Toolkit: Essays on Mixed-Methods Solutions for Comparative Politics in Diverse and Developing Contexts
Emma Murphy, (Ph.D., University College Dublin, expected 2023)
Dissertation: Agonistic transitional justice: a comparative approach
Emily Myers, (Ph.D., Duke University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Mobilization and Transformation of Social Ties During Civil War
Rhiannon Neilsen, (Ph.D., Australian National University, 2021)
Dissertation: Cyber Humanitarian Interventions: The Prospects and Ethics of Atrocity Prevention in the Digital Age
Oluwapelumi Obisesan, (Ph.D., SOAS, University of London, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Women's Experiences with Transitional Justice Processes in the Lake Chad Basin: The Boko Haram Case
Ilayda B. Onder, (Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Cooperation, Infighting, and Diffusion in Militant Group Networks
Hyunjung Park, (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace
Apekshya Prasai, (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expected May 2024)
Dissertation: Gendered Processes of Rebellion: Understanding Strategies for Organizing Violence
DeAnne Roark, (Ph.D., University of North Texas, 2023)
Dissertation: Promoting Women? Cause and Effects of Gender-Informed Transitional Justice
L. Allison Roberts, (Ph.D., University of Portsmouth, 2020)
Dissertation: Life after traumatic injury: narratives of embodiment and identity of United Kingdom ex-service personnel
Johanna Rodehau-Noack, (Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science, 2022)
Dissertation: ‘A Culture of Prevention:’ The Idea of Preventability and the Construction of War as a Governance Object
Anntiana Maral Sabeti, (Ph.D., Arizona State University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Understanding the Omission of Women and Gender in Peacebuilding post UNSCR 1325
Hattie Sellers, (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Framed by Exclusion: Gender Disparities in DDR Programs
Firuze Simay Sezgin, (Ph.D., Koç University, 2023)
Dissertation: Beyond First Glance: Exploring the Impact of Speed and Size in the Initial Deployments of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Norashiqin Toh, (Ph.D., Columbia University, expected 2023)
Dissertation: Lessons from Southeast Asia: Insurgencies, (In)action, and Transboundary Governance
Sedef Asli Topal, (Ph.D., Washington State University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation
Angie Torres-Beltran, (Ph.D., Cornell University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Gender, Violence, and the State
Cigdem Unal, (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, expected 2023)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Terrorism and Political Behavior: Country Level, Individual Level, and Party Level Analysis
Rachel Van Nostrand, (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2023)
Dissertation: Cruelty Confined: Locating Concentration Camps in Governments’ Repertoires of Repression
Pei-Yu Wei, (Ph.D., Duke University, 2023)
Dissertation: Strategic Third-Party Actors in Economic Sanctions
Winnie Xia, (Ph.D., University of Essex, 2023)
Dissertation: The Problem of Violence in Popular Mobilization
Heesun Yoo, (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2023)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Political Economy of Organized Crime
Gladys Zubiria, (Ph.D., Rice University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Giving Peace a Chance: The Role of Third Parties in Promoting a Just and Lasting Peace